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Sweet Cupcake Wish card

Posted on June 29, 2016June 27, 2016 by Josee

Good Morning!

Today's card is a 'step up' from this Sweet Cupcake card I showed you last week. I wanted to create the card starting with the same basic techniques, but adding a few more steps to it creates a card with more WOW factor! This card uses the Cupcake Cutouts Framelits to add that needed 'punch'!

How To Make It:

As I mentioned, this card starts with the basics of this card I posted last week.

To 'step it up' I stamped the Whisper White square with the little 'sprinkles' stamp from Sweet Cupcake. I stamped and glittered the cupcake the same way and then die cut the cupcake pieces using the cupcake dies in the Cupcake Cutout Framelits and adhered them to the square layers using Stampin' Dimensionals. I added some Silver Ribbon before adhering all the layers together.

Then, the 'wish' was die cut from Silver Glimmer Paper, using the Precision Base Plate and Die Brush to help cut a perfect cut! That was adhered with the Fine Tip Glue Pen and a Rhinstone Basics Jewel was added to the 'i' to bling it up!

Stamps:

Sweet Cupcake-141498 (bundle: 142232)

Paper:

Whisper White-100730 , Whisper White Thick-140272, Flirty Flamigo- 141416, Sweet Sugarplum-141418, Silver Glimmer Paper-135314

Ink:

Sweet Sugarplum- 141395, Basic Black-132708, Versamark- 102283, Refill- 102193

Other:

Rhinestone Basic Jewels- 119246, Silver 1/8” Ribbon- 132137, Cupcake Cutouts Framelits- 141474, Stampin Dimensionals-104430, Heat & Stick Powder-100625, Dazzling Diamonds Stampin’ Glitter-133751, Layering Squares Framelits- 141708, Heat Tool- 129053, Fine Tip Glue Pen- 138309, Precision Base Plate- 139684, Die Brush- 140603

What do you think? Does this add more WOW than the previous version?

Swirly Scribbles ‘Marquetry’ card

Posted on June 28, 2016July 12, 2016 by Josee

Hello!

Have you heard of intarsia or marquetry? They are wood inlay techniques that I truly admire the look of. I'm sure it takes quite a bit of talent and patience to create some of the amazing designs out of different types of wood or wood veneers, or differently stained pieces to create those peices of art. When I started out to create this card, Intarsia and Marquetry was what came to mind. It does take a tiny bit of patience and some forethought to get the look, but probably not as much 'talent' required as the Big Shot dies do the really hard work.

This card was made using the new Swirly Scribbles Thinlits, the Lovely Lace Textured Impressions Embossing Folder and the Greatest Greetings stamp set for the sentiment.

How To Make It:

I started this card with a base of Whisper White Thick cardstock.

On the Peekaboo Peach layer, I layed out the Swirly Scribbles Big Shot dies to get an idea of how I wanted the design to look. Then, I started to run the Peekaboo Peach layer through the Big Shot with the swirly dies, keeping track of the cut pieces as some of them will be used in the final design.

Then, I cut the same die cuts out of the Playful Palette Designer Series Papers and set those aside.

I cut the leaves from the Swirly Scribbles dies out of the Peekaboo Peach layer.

Now, behind the Peekaboo Peach layer, I added a full layer of the Emerald Envy cardstock.

Before adhering the layers together, I did a dry run and placed all the die cut pieces how I wanted them to go. I laid the Peekaboo Peach layer on the Emerald Envy layer and then started adding the die cut Playful Palette papers, also adding some of the Peekaboo Peach die cuts back in to fill in some of the spaces I did not want to be green. I left some of the 'spaces' empty so the Emerald Envy would show through.

Once I was happy with the design, I adhered the Emerald Envy layer to the back of the Peekaboo Peach layer and then used the Fine Tip Glue Pen to adhere all the die cuts.

While I allowed that to dry, I created the sentiment strip with the stamp from Greatest Greetings and then using the Banner Triple Punch I punched the tip and did the same to the mat layer beneath which also uses the Playful Palette Designer Series Paper.

Once the 'marquetry' layer was dried, I ran it through the Big Shot in the Lovely Lace Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. Then adhered that to the card base and added the sentiment with Stampin' Dimensionals.